From buddyspace to CitiTag: Large-scale symbolic presence for community building and spontaneous play

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 1600-1606

  Vogiazou, Yanna ^a   Eisenstadt, Marc ^a   Dzbor, Martin ^a   Komzak, Jiri ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergent behaviour; Instant messaging; Mixed reality games; Play; Presence; Social computing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EMERGENT BEHAVIOR; INSTANT MESSAGING; MIXED REALITY GAMES; PLAY; PRESENCE; SOCIAL COMPUTING;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 31444451703     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1066677.1067040     Document Type: Conference Paper

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